Jim McNamara, Stillwagon’s attorney, alleges that his client’s reputation was damaged and he
lost $500,000 defending himself due to the intentional misconduct of Delaware police detectives.
McNamara said at least two detectives coached and coerced witnesses, destroyed evidence and
probably misled grand jurors.

“This was completely cooked up,” McNamara said of the charges that came out of a Sept. 30, 2012,
incident between Stillwagon and Richard Mattingly.

McNamara said evidence showed that Mattingly — who later admitted he had been drunk while
driving his truck — targeted Stillwagon on his motorcycle, following him aggressively for
miles.

As the two turned into a parking lot on William Street in Delaware, Stillwagon fired his Glock
handgun at the truck in what he said later was self-defense. He then hit Mattingly with the butt of
his gun, and it went off.

Police said at the time that a bullet grazed Mattingly in the head, but a police report
indicates that Mattingly left the hospital before a diagnosis could be made.

McNamara said he is convinced that grand jurors heard a different story.

“If they (police) had given them the straight story, including the testimony of Mr. Stillwagon,
it’s inconceivable that he would have been indicted in the first place,” McNamara said
yesterday.

Delaware government officials declined to comment on the pending litigation.

Grand-jury proceedings are secret to protect those serving on the panel. But in rare cases, the
evidence presented to the panel is later released to “avoid a possible injustice in another
judicial proceeding,” according to the lawsuit.

People still believe that Stillwagon was the assailant in the case, McNamara said.

“There was infinitely more information about him being accused than there was about him being
acquitted,” he said. “A part of this is to make clear to everyone we can that he was always
innocent and he never did any of these things.”